OCTOBER 01 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#29 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” (Matthew 22:42)

 

OCTOBER 01  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#29  

“What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”  

(Matthew 22:42)

DAY 001 OF THE NEW REPUBLIC

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Lord Jesus, King of kings, my Redeemer who died on a cross

 at Calvary that I could live an abundant life in Christ Jesus!

 Lord, each day that I awake and realize that You have given me 

another day, my heart is filled immediately with praise for Your

 infinite Mercy and Grace. Lord, help us to know that Your Plan 

for our life has been carefully thought out by the Divine Trinity 

and therefore we can TRUST GOD that all things 

will work together for GOOD, 

for You have only GOOD THOUGHTS toward us and

 GOD’S PLAN is to give us all HOPE and a FUTURE! 

So Lord, I simply yield to the leading of Your Holy Spirit 

and TRUST You and the circumstances that You will place me in today —

 may I at the end of the day be found a “good and faithful servant”.   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus with the first 5 of His  “Seven Woes” has likened 

“hypocrisy” to “spiritual blindness” which prevents us 

from seeing the TRUTH  of  GOD that JESUS is CHRIST  

— Jesus continues with “Woe #6”: 

 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

 For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear

 beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones

 and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear

 righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”

 (Matthew 23:27-28) 

Jesus pointed out the connection between seeking to “indulge”

 ourselves and our “spiritual blindness” in “Woe #5” in which Jesus

 admonished the “hypocrite” to 

“first cleanse the inside of the cup and the dish” (Matthew 23:26) 

and now in “Woe #6” Jesus likens “hypocrisy" to “whitewashed tombs”

 as again Jesus makes reference to the “outside” appearing 

clean but the “inside” being “full of all uncleanness” — 

Jesus is Teaching a very specific Lesson when He 

Teaches the Truth of God that God sees what is on the “inside” 

and is not fooled like the world is fooled with our “outward" appearances! 

Jesus is not Teaching a new Lesson here 

but is proving that He is telling us what the 

“FATHER” has told the “SON” 

and in Jesus Teaching God and His Ways, 

Jesus  proves that He is the “SON” 

sent from God the “FATHER” 

for this Lesson of looking at the “inside” was first Taught by God 

to Samuel when God had commanded Samuel to find a “king” 

for Israel and God advised Samuel in his search not to look at the

 “outward appearance” when the LORD told Samuel,

 “…the LORD sees not as man sees: 

man looks on the outward appearance,

 but the LORD looks on the heart.” (1 Samuel 16:7) 

and later God had told Jeremiah, 

“I, the LORD, search the heart and test the mind, 

to give to every man according to his ways, 

according to the fruit of his deeds.” (Jeremiah 17:10)  

Jesus is Teaching that you can paint your walls white 

and appear clean and righteous to the world but 

God knows your “intent” and you cannot escape 

God’s judgement by painting over His Truth —

 Jesus makes the point that King David made to his son Solomon: 

“As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, 

and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; 

for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands every intent 

of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; 

but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.” 

(1 Chronicles 28:9) 

 Jesus is Teaching the same Truth of God that King David 

had learned from God Himself over a thousand years earlier so 

maybe in trying to answer the JESUS Question:

 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”

  (Matthew 22:42) 

that we should examine ourselves “inwardly” and pray like King David 

(described as a man after God’s own heart) when David prayed 

“Create in me a clean heart, O God, 

and renew a right spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10) 

——— It would not be the first time 

God has healed someone’s “spiritual blindness" !!!